Who will be the Brewers' Offensive MVP in 2011?

[And That]

Another pretty simple poll question - who will be the Brewers' offensive MVP in 2011?

 

In voting, feel free to use whatever criteria you want to assign to MVP status - team leader in OPS, WAR, great clubhouse guy, best neck beard, whatever.

[And That]

First vote is for "Other" - awesome. Who is it?

 

Also have to note that the Brewers have a very first-half-of-the-alphabet-last-name-oriented offense.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Sorry, And That.

 

No mystery "Other". Call it a hanging chad that was meant to hit the "Weeks" button above.

 

The only way I see an "Other" would be if an out-of-the-blue Prince Fielder megadeal happened during Spring Training.

[TooLiveBrew]

My vote is Weeks, even though I expect it to go to Braun or Fielder because the way these are selected has nothing to do with who's actually the most valuable (usually goes to Mr. Most RBI)

[Tedaldtada]

Well, TLB, I picked Prince because I think he will put up a 6+ WAR season, http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif.

[brewtank34]

My vote is Braun. I think he see's players like Tulo getting their contracts up'd and Braun mashes this year trying to get paid what he should be getting paid.

[TooLiveBrew]

Well, TLB, I picked Prince because I think he will put up a 6+ WAR season

 

I think Weeks will too!

 

And I should clarify that my 'the way these are selected' meant the actual team vote, not BF.net's vote

[Warning Track Power]

For some reason I think Ryan Braun will put up a monster season this year and have a run at MVP. I am thinking something along the lines of .340, 25 HR, 110 RBI with 45 to 50 doubles. I think Braun is going to continue on his career trend where he continues to sacrifice some power for average and start going gap to gap more, hence the increase in doubles. Barring an injury like last year (thank you Tommy Hanson), I expect an average and on base explosion from Braunie.

EDIT: I also think Rickie is going to go all Ignitor on us, raise his average to the .280-.290 range and have an OBP close to .400. If he does this and we don't sign him longterm before Thursday, my god will he get expensive. Rickie won't exactly replicate Prince's power after 2011 but he has the potential to replace everything else in my opinion.

[cwolf2012]

I chose other. His name is Donald, and he will put up the most fWAR of anyone on this team by at least 1.

 

EDIT: I guess I should have fully read the question. I want to change my answer to Rickie Weeks.

[Schlitz001]

Yeah, I almost voted other too. You should include "offensive" in the thread title. I was looking for Gallardo.

 

I voted Prince. Walk year and it's his "every other year" year.

[Funketown]

Put me down for Weeks. If he's as good as he was last year, he'll almost surely be the most valuable position player. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me to see Braun or Prince go crazy this year.

 

On a side note, when I first saw Yuniesky Betancourt, I thought it was Yovani Gallardo. I can't wait for somebody to vote for Wil Nieves.

[M Skjellyfetti]

I voted for Fielder because I mistook the term "offensive" to mean batting only. After further reading, I would probably consider switching to Weeks. My bad.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Prince Fielder. Playing for an enormous contract. Enough said.

[Warning Track Power]

Whoever voted for YuBet is the most optimistic Brewers fan I have ever seen. I think I'd pick Jeffrey Hammonds or Sean Berry over him for 2011 MVP.

[CheezWizHed]

Yeah, I almost voted other too. You should include "offensive" in the thread title. I was looking for Gallardo.

 

How would that change anything for Gallardo? He still should be included! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

 

Seriously, I picked Braun. Bounce-back from last year. I can see him competing for the batting title this year, too. 330-340/420/600

[The Truth]

Braun, batting in front of Fielder while Fielder is in a contract year

[Roderick]

Braun, batting in front of Fielder while Fielder is in a contract year

Yeah, but Fielder had his best year by far the first year of his two-year deal. We'll see how he handles a true contract year.

[YoungGeezy]

Riding the Gomez train, yes very optimistic haha

[Hammer]

Weeks: He now has a manager that encourages him to use his speed. Look for a lot of stolen bases, singles that are stretched to doubles...and an injured wrist is never really 100% up to strength in the first 18 months post surgery. Look for him to put even a little more sting on the ball this year...

[dlk9s]

Braun is going to be NL MVP. I just have a feeling he's absolutely going to rake. I'm talking .330 with 40 HR and even 20+ SB. I think he's made that he had to go through the Ken Macha era and with the pitching injection and the probably loss of Prince, he's going to take it upon himself to win the division.

 

I'm normally pretty even keeled when it comes to my thoughts and emotions about my teams, but I have really good feeling about this team. Like an "ESPN won't be able to ignore the Brewers by June" feeling.

[CheezWizHed]

And down the stretch, its Braun and Fielder neck and neck... now Fielder edges ahead by a nose...

 

Today's JSOnline poll has 79% of people think Braun will have the better season (1205 responders). Granted, today's main article was about Braun...

[greeg35]

I'm also assuming many of the people voting have no idea how to evaluate who had the better season. My guess is it would be something like whoever they got frustrated with less.

[Schlitz001]

I agree, I think that poll result is partly because people are not happy with Prince as a person for various reasons rather than people thinking Braun will have a bigger year. Most projections have Braun and Fielder having equally productive season, if not giving a slight edge to Fielder.

[sheetskout]

This is going to be down to Prince and Braun. Both have come into camp in-shape. I would put the edge towards Fielder as I honestly see a .275-95-42-118 year in him.

 

Fielder knows exactly what he's doing.

[cwolf2012]

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I'm still very concerned about how much Braun's power has declined since his first 2 years in the league. He's just entering his power prime, his ISO should be doing anything but going down every year.